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State Lawmakers Are Giving
School Vouchers New Steam

By

Robert Tomsho Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated April 7, 2003 12:31 a.m. ET

The long-stalled school-voucher movement is gaining ground.

Last week, the Colorado legislature passed a bill that would allow low-income students to use public money to enroll in private or parochial schools in large, poorly performing school districts. Colorado's voters solidly defeated two voucher-related referendums during the 1990s, but now both houses of the legislature are under Republican control. A spokesman for the...